I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.